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Podcasts

  • Empathy, Dignity, and Courageous Action in Schools Podcast
    • Tim Shriver and Stephanie Jones discuss how to teach and create more welcoming environments
  • Have You Heard Episode #209 Make Education Great Again
    • The MAGA vision for public education isn’t just to dismantle it. Key parts of the coalition also want to reshape schools along religious and political lines. In this episode we hear from two experts about MAGA’s education project. Kevin Kumashiro tells us about the growing influence of Christian Nationalism, while Laura Fields, author of the new book Furious Minds, introduces us to the intellectuals of the ‘new right,’ for whom taking back America also entails taking back K-12 schools.
  • Southlake Podcast
    • NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton, “Southlake” tells the story of how this idyllic city, and its local school board election, became the poster child for a new political strategy with national repercussions.
  • Telling Jefferson Lies Podcast
    • In Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims About Thomas Jefferson, we examine claims made by religious conservatives about Thomas Jefferson. Using Jefferson’s correspondence, accounts of Jefferson’s contemporaries, and other primary sources, Throckmorton and Coulter separate fact from fiction. Upon analysis, many claims about Jefferson made by religiously conservative culture warriors don’t hold up.

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